I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
I think you mean doing that for more than once has no extra effect on an SSD. Shouldn’t we overwrite the unencrypted content for at least once?
nope, i mean that’s just useless. (it does kinda do the job, but wears it down, and not as effective since SSDs aren’t really predictable because of wear leveling stuff and lie to the OS) there’s an ATA Secure Erase feature that can be used instead.
some relevant link https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716